Such changes to the industry have been reflected in the prices for bee hives.
The pub is really atmospheric and they even make a beer using honey from rooftop bee hives.
Businesses in central London are being offered free bee hives to see if they will enhance office morale.
BBC: London offices offered bee hives to 'boost work morale'
Capital Growth is also supporting the development of 50 new community bee hives across London to create sanctuaries for the urban bee.
"It's important to realise that bee hives can't just be stuck in urban space without creating a habitat for them, " says Michael Smith, the co-founder of Johnny's Garden.
InMidtown said it had doubled its bee hives from four to eight, introduced more plants and increased its honey produced to 37lbs (16.8kg), bucking the national trend.
Allen Miller, whose company Bees Be Gone removed the hive after the attack, said he's seen more Africanized bee hives in the past few weeks than he normally sees in a year.
He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.
This happens frequently on bee farms, where hives are kept in unnatural proximity and abundance, and are frequently transported together in trucks.
Yet, despite their seeming success in the Darwinian game of outbreeding the competition, the Cape bee clones are apparently incapable of establishing self-sustaining hives of their own.
The bee-research team went on to confirm via polymerase chain reaction that hives with colony collapse disorder were far more likely to have IAPV.
They collected samples from infected hives and compared them not only with samples from apparently healthy hives but also with an analysis of royal jelly a bee secretion fed to the larvae from China, which has not been affected by the mystery disorder.
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For a start, all the hives infected with it were also infested with a second nasty, the Kashmiri bee virus.
ECONOMIST: A virus may help explain colony collapse disorder
Dozens of hives have been placed in spaces including museums and rooftops as part of the Bee Buddies project run by the Groundwork Sheffield charity.
Declining bee populations were first spotted in the U.S. in late 2006 when some hives were reported to have hemorrhaged as much as 90 percent of their populations for no apparent reason.
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